Hugh Cholmondeley (soldier)

Sir Hugh Cholmondeley (1513 - 6 January 1596), was an English soldier.

Cholmondeley was the eldest son of Richard Cholmondeley (not to be confused with a cousin, Richard Cholmondeley) and Elizabeth Brereton. The Cholmondeley family had held the lordship of Cholmondeley in Cheshire since the time of the Norman conquest. He fought against the Scots in 1542 and for this he was knighted by King Henry VIII. In 1557 he raised one hundred men at his own expense and joined the Earl of Derby in his expedition against an invading Scottish army. Apart from his military career he was also High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire and Sheriff of Flintshire.

Cholmondeley married Mary, daughter of Christopher Holford, who was fifty years his junior. They had five sons and three daughters. Their eldest son Robert was created Earl of Leinster in 1646; another son, Hugh, was the ancestor of the Marquesses of Cholmondeley; while yet another son, Thomas, was the ancestor of the Barons Delamere. Cholmondeley died in January 1596. His wife Lady Cholmondeley gained fame in her own right for her lawsuit against her uncle George Holford over the inheritance of her father's estates. She died in 1626.

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